Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis